You can take Larry Stobbs out of the Highway Patrol, but you can’t take the patrol out of our former mayor.

Good-Time Charlie DeShon, legendary Joetown philosopher and politician, died decades before the wisdom of his plan to resuscitate downtown became so obvious and popular.

Some great old friends —Etta and Everette and Joe and Duck and many more — will come back to Joetown this June to help the Coleman Hawkins Jazz Society celebrate its 10th annual jazz festival.

Another big dream won first-round approval from the bobble-head quorum of the City Council last week.

OK, fight fans, it’s time for an update on the “Free For All at City Hall.” It’s a 15-round bout between the reigning champ, City Manager Vince Capell and the challenger, Mayor Ken Shearin.

Brother, the good folks over at St. Mary’s Academy stumbled into a hornet’s nest when they decided recently to pass on a female referee for one of the academy’s boys basketball games. Someone apparently didn’t send them the memo on gender politics. The battle is over.

Pitchers and catchers reported to spring training last week. There is reason for hope.

Somewhere between 100 and 200 big chunks of space debris crash back into the earth every year. Oh, my!

St. Joseph’s worst kept secret was revealed at a very public meeting of the St. Joseph School District Board of Education on Monday.

The average scoop of snow weighs about 30 pounds. That’s not, of course, Tuesday’s wet snow that preceded the major snowstorm that hit early Wednesday morning.